Pascale Ife Williams, PhD is a Black queer spirit-led cultural organizer, educator, scholar, and healing justice practitioner. Ife is a Chicago native with over 15 years of experience in justice-driven arts and community-engaged work that explores and expands racial, gender, and wellness equity. Ife is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the School of Human Ecology: Civil Society and Community Research. She is a co-founding member of the BYP100 Healing & Safety Council (byp100.org) and the P.O.W.E.R. Collective. Ife has taught as Visiting Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and been integral in supporting several inaugural cultural initiatives, such as Creative Lab for Cultural Leaders (CLCL) and RE-TOOL 21. Ife currently works contractually facilitating generative spaces that engage communities and organizations through conflict transformation, values-aligned visioning, imagination and community care. Her family and community are a constant source of humility, inspiration, and laughter.